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Penny Summerfield's Leverhulme research:
Contesting Home Defence
In August 2000 I completed a Leverhulme-funded research project on the Gendering of Home Defence in Britain in the Second World War, working with Dr Corinna Peniston-Bird who was employed as a Research Associate on the project, at Lancaster University . We have recently finished a book based on the project, Contesting Home Defence: men, women and the Home Guard in Britain in the Second World War, to be published by the Centre for the Cultural History of War series, Manchester University Press.
Click here for more information on this project.
Peter Gatrell's AHRB project:
Population Displacement, State Practice & Social Experience in Russia and Eastern Europe
I currently co-direct a major ARHB research project (with Nick Baron, University of Nottingham) on "Population displacement, state practice and social experience in Russia and Eastern Europe, 1930-1956". This represents a continuation of a project that ran from 1999 to 2004 ('Population displacement, state formation and social identity in the former Russian empire, 1918-1930'), which recruited a multinational team of scholars from Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia and Ukraine. The current project has 2 post-doctoral research fellows (one is Tomas Balkelis, the other will be appointed later in 2005) and 2 PhD students, one based at Manchester and one at Nottingham. For details of the Manchester PhD studentship see
http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/subjectareas/history/newsandevents/studentship/
Ana Carden-Coyne's research:
Men in Pain: Disabled Veterans, Rehabilitation and Subjectivity in WW1
The Faculty of Humanities of the University of Manchester has funded the first stage of this research. This book is a study of disabled veterans and rehabilitation in Britain and Australia during the First World War, focusing on: (1) how disabled men experienced pain, encountered discourses of masculinity, and attempted to reconstruct their subjectivity, negotiating the attitudes of physicians, therapists and families; (2) the class and gender dynamics between patients and medical staff engaged in rehabilitation treatments; (3) cultural representations of disability and how veterans responded to them. A key line of inquiry is to explore how men in pain experienced their bodies and formulated new identities as "disabled veterans", and what this meant for their subjectivity. This project will engage not only with medical and government authorities, with therapists and nurses, but offers new approaches from the perspectives of disabled men themselves.